e/Christian Aramaic

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has gloss	eng: The Aramaic language is of historical importance to Christians, Jews and Mandaeans. The use of the language among Christians can be divided into four distinct areas: * the Aramaic of Jesus — Jesus most probably spoke a western Jewish variety of Aramaic as his mother tongue. * Christian Palestinian Aramaic — a variety of western Aramaic that developed from pagan varieties in the Jordan Valley region. * Syriac — a variety of eastern Aramaic spoken in northern Mesopotamia that became the literary and liturgical language of Syriac Christianity. * modern vernacular Christian Aramaic — a number of Neo-Aramaic languages developed from older colloquial Aramaic varieties and became influenced by Syriac. Still spoken to this day, Western Neo-Aramaic is the only western variety to survive, whereas Christians speak a number of varieties of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic.
lexicalization	eng: Christian Aramaic
instance of	(noun) an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it Aramaic script, Aramaic